When You Check Your Phone, You Find That You Have

question 178

Multiple Choice

When you check your phone, you find that you have several messages. For some reason you didn't notice the sound or vibrations when the messages came in, even though you were waiting for your friends to contact you. According to signal detection theory, your failure to notice the sound or vibration is a

• A) true positive
• B) false positive
• C) false negative
• D) true negative

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